Donald Allen During 1987, when some of the London media were pursuing the ‘ Wilson plots’ story, Colin Wallace, the only public source on the story at the time, was working with a Channel 4 journalist called Robert Parker. At one point disinformation about Wallace was being fed to Parker, through another journalist, from […]
[…] George Thomson presided over longer-term IRD activities’. (p. 138) George Thomson, later ennobled as Lord Thomson of Monifieth, was one of the leading pro-EEC members of the Wilson Cabinet and a former Chair of the Labour Committee for Europe. He resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in 1973 when Labour policy shifted into an anti-EEC […]
[…] right-wing which Hughes, like a few others on the British Left began in the mid 1980s; and a rather perfunctory account of the covert operations against the Wilson government and the rise of Thatcherism. The Right is another country Left pioneers like Mike Hughes who wandered into the strange country of the British Right […]
[…] militants to serve as the junior partners with US covert operations in the protection of US interests.” (RR) 16. The bodies continue to pile up around Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil. IHT (30th April 1983) reports death “by apparent suicide” of Waldo Duberstein, senior DIA analyst, who had been indicted on charges of selling […]
[…] which, given the allegation that Goldsmith attended the meeting between the G. K.Young-Anthony Cavendish ‘action group’, UNISON, and Peter Wright, may have some bearing on the ‘ Wilson plots’. If there was a connection between the campaigns against both Wilson and Willy Brandt, as some believe, was it ‘the Pinay Circle’ which co-ordinated the […]
[…] PO Box 30, Mapleton, Queensland 4560, Australia. Cold war history Students of the cold war should take note of an extraordinary project being run by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. The Cold War International History Project is attempting to keep track of, and summarise the results of, the opening […]
[…] in 1974. And then? Well – not very much, publicly: 18 years on the back-benches during which he called for an enquiry into the plots to destabilise Wilson and voted against the Poll Tax. But privately, it was a different matter. Harding, Leigh and Pallister dive into News of the World territory with a […]
[…] For more seasoned campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and important texts have not been […]
[…] March 2009, p .6 ‘Unearthing Britain’s Cold war nuclear history: the secret Chevaline project’, University of Nottingham press release, 25 June 2008 See also: Kristan Stoddart, ‘The Wilson Government and British responses to anti-ballistic Missiles, 1964-1970’, Contemporary British History, 23 (1), March 2009, pp. 1-33. For further information on Chevaline see James Harkin, ‘Middleman […]
[…] annual rate of inflation had risen, seemingly inexorably, from 3 per cent under the Conservative governments of 1951 to 1964, to 4 per cent under the first Wilson administration, to 9 percent under Heath and to 15 percent under the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. By the time Margaret Thatcher became the Prime […]
